Argument count mismatch?

[falcron]

Can someone explain why I am receiving an an argument count mismatch with this sample code? There are 7 arguments, first 5 being integers, and last two being strings. The function returns a string, which I define "com" as. I don't see why this doesn't work.

I'm a decent FB programmer (by no means a master), but this is really elementary, and I know I'm making a stupid mistake somewhere.

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DECLARE FUNCTION GetInput (intType AS Integer, intLen AS Integer, intFGColor AS Integer, intBGColor AS Integer, intComma AS Integer, strDefaultValue AS String, strPrompt AS String) AS String

dim com as string

com = GetInput 1, 5, 15, 1, 1, "100", "Enter a string: "

FUNCTION GetInput (intType AS Integer, intLen AS Integer, intFGColor AS Integer, intBGColor AS Integer, intComma AS Integer, strDefaultValue AS String, strPrompt AS String) AS String

' All the code for this function is here

END FUNCTION

[maddogg6]

maybe because COM is an FB keyword??
Try changing that to COMM or something...

My only hint was how the forum decorated that word.

[falcron]

I'm sorry - I should have clarified - the variable doesn't matter.

I can just as easy replace com with "a"

[MichaelW]

GetInput(1, 5, 15, 1, 1, "100", "Enter a string: ")

This is a fairly easy mistake to make, so I think the handling of it needs some work.

[falcron]

Told you it was a stupid mistake. Talk about a brain freeze.

Thank you MichaelW.

[anonymous1337]

I thought that parenthesis were optional? What was the mistake?

[falcron]

The parenthesis made it work. I think they were required. Were they supposed to be optional?

[KristopherWindsor]

I thought that parenthesis were optional? What was the mistake?

I think they are required for functions.

[krcko]

parentheses are optional when you are just calling sub/function:

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mySubOrFunction a, b, c, d

but when you're assigning function's result to some variable than they are required:

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x = myFunction(a, b, c, d)

[anonymous1337]

Alright. I gotcha now.

[jevans4949]

com can be used as a variable name.

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dim com as string
com = "aaa"
print com
sleep

Should this be allowed?

EDIT: Even wierder:

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dim com as string
dim s as string
com="C:/AUTOEXEC.BAT"
open com for input as #1
while EOF(1) = 0
    line input #1,s
    print s
wend
close #1
sleep

[cha0s]

Yeah, some of the quirk functions don't actually reserve their keywords, like put's ALPHA or TRANS. In the case of OPEN, your symbol will take precedence.